AH / Just Flight : Stinson L-5 Sentinel Released !!!

Aeroplane Heaven together with Just Flight have released the Stinson L-5 Sentinel. Here is the blurb from the Just Flight Product Page and a single screen. We will bring our own screens later today of the product. In the mean time :-

MODEL

Built over the best plans available and from factory engineering drawings

Highly detailed down to individual rivets and fabric effects

Many unique animations including aileron droop

Fully animated, highly realistic pilot and observer

Removable engine cover reveals the detailed Lycoming engine

Animated doors and drop-down Perspex windows

Fully detailed interior visible with all controls and fittings

Weather covers and pre-flights included

COCKPIT

Highly realistic rendition of a WWII period Stinson cockpit

Unique ‘shake’ on airframe at engine start and idle

Unique needle tremble on engine start and low speed idle

Realistic engine start procedure with prop stutter

‘Cold and Dark start function using switch

Specially animated aileron droop function in combination with flaps

Wear and tear, dust and scratches throughout cockpit

Working rear observer’s controls

All wires and pulleys for control surfaces are animated

Full period radio suite

Animated doors and windows

TEXTURES

Highly detailed High Definition texture set with weather and wear effects

LIVERIES The Stinson L-5 Sentinel is supplied in the following seven liveries:

‘Dangerous Liaison’ – Serial No. 4268591

US Coast Guard OY-1 – Serial No. 98168

US Marines VMO6 – Serial No. 03968 ‘WB’

Swiss Air Force A-96 – this machine was force-landed near Porrentruy by its pilot, 2nd Lt Roy G. Abbot in late 1944 and was later repaired and used by the Swiss Air Force

US Army machine – Serial No. 42 98989. Stinson L-5s played a key role in the Normandy D-Day landings in 1944 and later. Black and white Invasion stripes were painted on all Allied aircraft so that ground forces would not confuse them with enemy aircraft.

KJ420 of the Malaya Command Flight, 1945 – the RAF South East Asia Command operated Stinsons during WWII.

The United States Air Force re-designated all of its L-5 Sentinels in 1962. The new designation was U-19A. This example, serial No. 4298633 is from that period.